After the pictures of his Hindu wedding invite got leaked online, Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has revealed that it has given him an extra headache in the last couple of days.

The RCB all-rounder said it was supposed to be a private event in the presence of 350 closest friends and family members but now that the details of the week-long event have made it on the internet he will have to beef up the security arrangements even further to ensure that all the functions go on smoothly without any issues.

“It was not ideal. We've got to get extra security for the wedding now,” Maxwell told cricket.com.au after Australia clinched the T20I series against Sri Lanka.

The reason why Maxwell's marriage is hogging so much limelight in India is because of her fiancee Vini Raman, who is an Australian citizen of Indian descent.

But more than their marriage, which is set to take place in Melbourne on March 27, it’s their wedding invite, printed in Tamil, that has created a lot of buzz on different social networking sites after it got leaked online.

Maxwell said that the matter was brought to his notice by a former RCB teammate who informed him that his Tamil wedding card was doing rounds on the social media and how much buzz it has created online.

Describing the online leak of their wedding invite as “unfortunate”, Maxwell said that their Indian relatives perhaps got a “little bit excited” and circulated the card among their friends, in order to show off, and it eventually ended up in every major newspaper in the country.

“It was supposed to be a private event and unfortunately the relatives over in India just got a little bit excited and decided to show a few friends."

“Next minute, it's in pretty much every paper over there and I'm getting tweeted it by pretty much everyone. So that was a shock. It's been a busy couple of days,” Maxwell added.

Maxwell and Vini, who is a pharmacist in Melbourne, had been in a relationship for quite a few years and they got engaged a couple of years ago but had to push back their marriage due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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The 33-year-old power-hitter is set to miss Australia’s upcoming historic tour of Pakistan due to his marriage. There is also a high likelihood of him missing a few matches in this year’s IPL.

The schedule for the cash-rich league is yet to be announced but the tournament is likely to begin in the last week of March and it might overlap with his wedding.

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